The Chandigarh Group of Colleges (or CGC) are the

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, a short distance from

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and

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. Chandigarh Group of Colleges was established in 2001 at Landran and at Jhanjeri in 2012.

Individual institutions

Even having a title with a similar name, the three groups of colleges i.e. CGC Landran, CGC Mohali (Jhanjeri), and Chandigarh University, are three different educational institutions, with different locations, and also the three have separate identities.

CGC Landran

In 2002, CGC Landran was created under the affiliation of I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University. Better known as Landran College, CGC Landran offers many technical, pharma, management, arts and science courses. Landran is an interconnected urbanized village linked between Sohana, Kharar, and

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, the three prominent towns or villages of

Campus activities and sports

CGC campus students have the opportunity to be a part of different cultural events like fashion shows, faculty felicitation, the

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-sponsored ''CanSat'' competition, MHRD's Smart India Hackathon events, Start up to Scale Up conferences, NCC best cadet, Faculty Development Programmes apart from annual Techno cultural Fests. CGC students also participate in many sports tournaments and competitions such as Volleyball, Wrestling, weightlifting, power lifting, and best physique championships.

CGC Mohali (Jhanjeri)

In 2012, CGC Mohali (Jhanjeri) was initiated as technical campus and it is currently running under separate administration in Jhanjeri. It is a village which connects two important cities i.e.

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CGC Gharuan or Chandigarh University

Initiated in 2009, CGC Gharaun later got University status by UGC in 2012 and is now known as Chandigarh University.

Placements

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visit the Landran and Jhanjeri campuses with more than 490 job offers . Though no. of placements does not ensure that the grabbed placements are high because most of the recruiters are mass recruiters. The highest placement gone is 1.07 cr. by off campus placement and on campus with 45.9 lakhs in the year 2022 at Amazon.

Research and development

Chandigarh Group of Colleges is one of the top 10 institutes in India in terms of number of patents filed. CGC has MoU with the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology for Entrepreneurship, R&D Projects and training. CGC is a member of the AI and

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project under Newton Bhabha Fund sanctioned by UK's

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. The school was granted aid by

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for the development of nanotechnology-based lung cancer vaccine.

Ranking

* Aspiring Minds' National Employability Award 2019 * Times Top 100 Private Engineering Institute rankings 2018- Top 50 * Chronicle 7th All India Engineering Survey - A++

References

External links

Chandigarh Group of Colleges Landran

Chandigarh Group of Colleges Mohali (Jhanjeri)
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